THE WORLD STILL NEEDS HEROES - AND THERE ARE HEROES ALL OVER THE WORLD!

The Champions have gone global! The team has seen explosive growth under Ms. Marvel's leadership, with super-powered members ready to answer the call in a dozen different countries.

They're saving people and improving lives across the planet while they inspire the next generation... but something sinister lurks beneath the surface of their expanded mission.

It's a dark secret that could destroy the team and everything they stand for!

Jim Zub (AVENGERS: NO SURRENDER, UNCANNY AVENGERS) and Steven Cummings (Wayward, Legends of the Dark Knight) ignite a new era of CHAMPIONS, filled to the brim with action, adventure and drama in the Mighty Marvel Manner!

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Black Order #3 - Written by Derek Landy. Art by Philip Tan. Cover by Philip Tan. Variant Cover by John Tyler Christopher.

You just can't work to destabilize an empire these days without drawing the attention of at least one pesky super-powered hero, now can you?

All the Black Order wants to do is usurp, assassinate and sabotage, and here comes the man called Nova to spoil all the fun...

Mole Monster begins his attack on New York City. However, he is shocked and puzzled to find that none of the city's
superheroes are there to fight him. In response, Sam Alexander flies in to begin the fight the villain was looking for.

The Mole Monster starts making personal insults about Sam's father and his own father the Mole Man.
The distraction allows some of the attacker's creatures to blast Nova with a high energy weapon! Sam quickly gets back up and tells the Mole Monster he doesn't need any of Earth's other heroes to
stop him.

In a blur of motion, Nova blasts the Mole Monster's creature with multiple energy blasts! The barrage causes the creature to throw its master off its back. Unfortunately, the angry creature lashes
out and begins a rampage through downtown New York City! Sam now realizes he could use some superhuman help.

In a bar called Game Over, Nova comes crashing through the window and lands next to a man who doesn't seem surprised by his entrance. The bar patron asks Sam how old he is and seems mildly disgusted when
he learns Nova is 15. He then asks Sam Alexander if he is a member of the Avengers and, if so, which group. The teen hero says he has to go fight a giant monster. The trenchcoated stranger tells Sam he'd be
better off learning how to tune out being a hero like he finally did.

Suddenly, the front of the bar explodes as it is hit by the Mole Monster's creature! The stranger finds his beer has been spilt and is now angry enough to fight the monster. The two heroes launch a
furious attack on the rampaging monster!

Nova blasts the green monster and is surprised to see that the stranger is strong enough to punch the creature and hurl a bus at it! The two connect their punches on the monster's head at the same time and
it is powerful enough to make the creature fall.

The stranger with superstrength finally introduces himself to Nova. He states he is the Captain. He also mentions he is a member
of the former superhero group known as Nextwave. He informs Nova that he's not a superhero any longer and has no interest in returning to that life.

He also advises Sam to get out of the hero business. That it is a life of being unappreciated and will leave him not trusting anyone except himself.

Later, in Carefree, Arizona, Nova returns home and has a talk with his mother.
He tells her about his conversation with the Captain and reveals to her the existence of a new Inhuman who can see the future (the events from Civil War 2). With all the events happening
lately and not being able to get in touch with the Avengers, the distraught teen admints that he's scared. However, he tells Eva that he does know what he plans to do next.

He promises his mother that he will find out how the Nova Force works or he'll quit being Nova for good.